contemptibilities

Among Fritzing's many preachings there had been one, often repeated in the strongest possible language, that of all existing contemptibilities the very most contemptible was for a woman to marry any one she did not love; and the peroration, also extremely forcible, had been an announcement that the prince did not exist who was fit to tie her shoestrings.

The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight Elizabeth von Arnim 1903

It was a noble deed only by contrast with the outrageous background of contemptibilities in which it is set; otherwise it is most plain and commonplace.

Fifty Years in the Gospel Ministry from 1864 to 1914. Twenty-seven Years in the Pastorate; Sixteen Years' Active Service as Chaplain in the U. S. Army; Seven Years Professor in Wilberforce University; Two Trips to Europe; A Trip in Mexico. Theophilus Gould 1866

He was, therefore, certainly what the world calls a great man, though he had great faults, and many littlenesses and contemptibilities.

Fred Markham in Russia The Boy Travellers in the Land of the Czar William Henry Giles Kingston 1847